WikiLeaks prosecutor accepts GI's plea to 1 count

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is scheduled to face a court martial beginning June 3, is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified records to WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad.Associated Press

Associated Press

FORT MEADE, Md. -- Prosecutors say they will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces.

Maj. Ashden Fein said Tuesday that prosecutors had changed their minds about trying to convict Pfc. Bradley Manning with violating the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in connection with the release of a cable known as Reykjavik-13.

WikiLeaks posted the cable in 2010 about a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, summarizing U.S. Embassy discussions with Icelandic officials about the country's financial troubles.

The cable was among more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents Manning acknowledged sending to the WikiLeaks site.

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